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Libro secondo delle Indie Occidentali

by: Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557

Publication date: 1534

Topics: Indians of the West Indies, Indians of Central America, Natural history -- West Indies, Natural history -- Latin America, America -- Discovery and exploration, Imprint 1534

Publisher: Stampato in Vinegia, : [A. Pincio]

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Italian

Item Size: 308.5M

64, [2] leaves, [2] folded leaves of plates : 21 cm. (4to)

Translation, by Andrea Navigero, of: Ouiedo Dela natural hystoria delas Indias. Toledo, 1526

Issued as part 2 of: Summario de la generale historia de l'Indie Occidentali. Venice, 1534

Very likely edited by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, according to Arents and Streeter coll. auction cat

Half title dated M D XXXIIII

Verso of leaf [1] has title: Summario de la naturale et general historia de l'Indie Occidentali, composta da Gonzalo Ferdinando del Ouiedo, altrimenti di Valde, ... :ilqual fu riue duto & corretto per ordine de la Maesta del Imperadore, pel suo real consiglio, de le dette Indie. & tradotta di lingua castigliana in Italiana

Signatures: A-I⁴ k⁴ L-P⁴ Q⁶ (Q6 verso blank)

Maps unnumbered, described on leaf [2] recto at end

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